Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 

@dave_cochran@infosec.exchange
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We do not have much in common, you and I - still, this encounter feels special. I hope you will not mind if I consider you a friend.

he/him

enthusiastically anti-nazi

RTs are *absolutely* endorsements unless I'm arguing with whoever got RT'd in the replies - and sometimes even then.

old mastodon profilehttps://mastodon.social/@dave_cochran
Show threadDave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 2h ago
Whether you choose to join us or not, a boost would be greatly appreciated :)
Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 2h ago

If you're not sure if Games Done Quick is something you would enjoy, I encourage you to watch this run from last night, keeping in mind that it started at 1:04 AM local: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXlLYOsBohI

It is from the unofficial start of the "silly block" - games that you probably haven't heard of, but which are - as the name suggests - profoundly silly.

We're raising money RIGHT NOW for Médecins Sans Frontières, aka Doctors Without Borders - we're at $966,673 as I type this, and that number has changed in the time it took to keep typing. Give us a watch! https://www.gamesdonequick.com or https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick :)

AEW Fight Forever by Porkchop44 in 40:33 - Summer Games Done Quick 2025

YouTube
Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 10h ago
T. Greg Doucette10h ago
The Trump administration is now regularly raiding churches to deport Christians www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Southern California bishop sus...
Southern California bishop suspends Mass obligation due to immigration fears

San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Rojas has formally excused parishioners from their weekly obligation to attend Mass following immigration detentions on two parish properties in the diocese.

NBC News
Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 11h ago
Matt Gray11h ago

The European Space Agency invited me to their mission control centre in Germany to find out what it takes to be a Satellite Operations Engineer working on their new Earth observation satellite, BIOMASS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i1Xz-xiYSU

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 11h ago
Augie Ray11h ago

More evidence something very, very strange is going on in Couer d'Alene, Idaho. Another #COVID19 reading has been added to the WastewaterSCAN dashboard, and COVID continues to explode in this town.

You can see how much higher COVID is in this place than the rest of the US in this chart. What this doesn't show is that this is one of the highest COVID readings ever for any sewershed since the start of the pandemic. There may be no more than 12 higher readings in the past five years in the US.

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 11h ago
Anat Shenker-Osorio1d ago
MAGA. Murder. Regime. This is a hostile takeover of OUR government by the bullies, of the bigots, for the billionaires. We cannot vote our way to democracy - we must take mass sustained public action to get rid of these occupiers.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lthochesfk2d
Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 20h ago
Popehat’s Interests First1d ago
Perhaps if a hostile foreign power imposes coercive sanctions on you to prevent you from prosecuting their ally for crimes, you should take the ally out into a public square and hang them.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6ma4ud7ovt2cpuj6bncaf6gw/post/3ltkr3nk6bc26
Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 20h ago
Climate Jenny 2.11d ago

New horrors. The Biodiversity Heritage Library needs help. The Smithsonian Institution will end its support as of 1 Jan 2026.

This is the world's largest open-source archive for biodiversity literature and archives -- the place where you can find all the old, but still very useful, botanical literature, among other things.

Please share widely with your networks. #biodiversity #Archives #defendresearch #botany

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

Call for Support: – About BHL

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 22h ago
Popehat’s Interests First23h ago
Say what you want about Rahm Emanuel but he is polling at 60% amongst people who report they are likely to commit suicide in the next six months

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v5euxdcwrvmprsp3ls6g2jcg/post/3ltkk3njubk25
Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 22h ago
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Lesley Carhart 2d ago
https://bsky.app/profile/pbump.com/post/3ltiioxfh3c2j
Show threadOriel Jutty 1d ago

@hacks4pancakes Actual alt text:

Screenshot of a Bluesky post by Philip Bump  @pbump.com‬.

The actual cycle of Twitter is that it was exploited by liars and Nazis in 2016 and so the company tightened its moderation rules and then a bunch of people on the right caught up in those rules decided it was biased and that included Musk who bought it and has now automated the Nazi lies.

(22 replies; 280 reposts; 1.1K likes)

Show threadOvertonDoors1d ago

@hacks4pancakes I tend to think Twitter was purchased to garrote the single largest global clearinghouse of journalism and civil oversight ever created. It was always a controlled demolition and Musk was always a Nazi with a tech-bro PR firm on retainer.

The second largest stakeholder in Twitters buyout was a Saudi prince with his hands on the national sovereign wealth fund. They wanted it dead simply because of its part in the Arab Spring. Petro-autokrats and multinational tech firms like Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Nvidia/ect. are sharing a toothbrush. Together they incubated the human spoofing chatbots that have driven conversations increasingly devisive and toxic on social media platforms.

All the AI bullshit they are pushing as a unified front presently is better viewed as these same rackiteers rebranding that human spoofing software to recoup a decade long up-front investment.